THE FRENCH SOUDAN.
A COLUMN ENGAGED.
35 French and 300 Native
Casualties.
(Received' 10.47 a.m.)
PARIS, November 23
STews has been received that a French ' fcolumn was engaged in a fierce fight at ■ Biraldi, in the French Soudan. Iho force retreated after the captain and six riflemen had been killed and 28 wounded. 'Three hundred Touregs were killed and i It is reported that the Sultan ox Kanem.was among the killed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 280, 24 November 1903, Page 5
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